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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The re-start of the same adventure...Daniel Plan TTTC

Here I go…AGAIN. I’m going through the Daniel Plan group
study for my third time. The first time I blogged about it, it was just the
Daniel Plan. Second time was Daniel Plan Part Deux. This adventure I shall name
Daniel Plan TTTC (third time’s the charm).

It’s not that the Daniel Plan doesn’t work. It does. But it
doesn’t work if you don’t do it. I do fairly well during the study time and 40
days of eating but afterward, when I don’t have the boundaries set up, that’s
when the yucky eating sneaks in. So having a plan for keeping on the Plan after
the boundaries of the group study and 40 days are over is what’s going to make
it or break it for me.

We met for the first of the six group studies last Thursday.
We had 8 people show up and I had emails from people who forgot, had a bad day,
didn’t want to get out in the yucky, cold, drizzly mess that was last Thursday.
I think we’ll have 12-14 people involved, which will make for some lively
discussions.

My family started our 40 days yesterday. I needed time to
get the pantry in order and to grocery shop and time had just passed me by in
the weeks leading up to the first session. Meg and I worked a miracle at the
house and threw away a LOT of expired stuff and bagged up a lot of non-DP (not Daniel
Plan okay) foods to take to the church to give away. Let’s just say that after
1.5 days of the detox (first 10 days are no gluten, no dairy, no sugar, no
caffeine on top of the regular whole foods/no processed/no artificial sweetener
foods Daniel Plan thing), I’m over it. Sorry. That’s a pretty cruddy attitude
but I am. At the very least I’m ready to not be on the detox because this girl
is HUNGRY!! I know that I’m not doing well with eating according to the Daniel
Plan Plate (50% non-starchy vegetables, 25% lean protein, 25% starchy
veggie/whole grain and a low-glycemic fruit) and that’s probably my biggest
problem and the reason why I’m so blasted hungry. So I’ll work on that and see
if that helps keep me full.

Breakfast: Smoothie: Jamba Juice Green
Fusion smoothie mix (and, dang it, I didn’t read the ingredients this morning
and just found out that it has stinkin’ sugar in it! So much for the shortcut!)
with coconut water, protein powder and 1 T of Chia seed